In Elie Wiesel's speech, his main purpose argues about how we're beginning a new millennium and how the American people should be less indifferent towards those struggling with injustice. Wiesel has a certain interpretation of the word indifference and how it affects the nation and its victims; he portrays this by addressing some of America's history, where Americans revealed indifference towards suffering nations.
However, at the very end of his speech, he sympathetically mentions the topic of children: "What about the children? Oh, we see them on television, we read about them in the papers, and we do so with a broken heart. Their fate is always the most tragic, inevitably. When adults wage war, children perish." Why does he abruptly change
However, at the very end of his speech, he sympathetically mentions the topic of children: "What about the children? Oh, we see them on television, we read about them in the papers, and we do so with a broken heart. Their fate is always the most tragic, inevitably. When adults wage war, children perish." Why does he abruptly change